Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-29
REAL ESTATE.
COMBINATION LAND co,
SPECIAL NO. 4.

'"The old oligarchy of Greece now abolished
Were jolly and genial and fond OF the arts
| Their tastes were refined, their manners were
/ polished,
But their manner of living affects their
hearts.
| They neglected their business, they gave
themselves airs,
| Read the poets in Greek, supped their
wine, took their rest,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
affairs,
And as for their morals-the least said the
| best
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
| An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
OF men
| And popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora ana
Crete,
And dozen or more Heather women whom
you know,
street.
The lvre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydice
| And the Tyre tells the truth when it says
ne'er before did see
place where the truth seems lie and a
| boast.
Whore else is spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
will grow side by side without water or
care,
To a God when he breathes the electrical
If man has a hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy lot there, not day will he
wait,
For LEUCADIA the lovely, the darling, the
dandy.
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
LEuCADiA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds OF thousands of acres
OF land in Los Angeles, San BernardinO and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
LEUCADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges OF ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skilt of translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity SO attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres ac
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to thepresent limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean side property. The Japanese ocean
current-the "Gulf Stream" of the Pacific,
in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti
fetal heat, and do not bathe in the ocean.
AS for Santa Cruz, there is u couplet written
by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls of bath-house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
'Santa Cruz water is like the Scotch snuff
.
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southward IN direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
angle, and ih few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing in any month
of the ysar real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe,
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyos, so as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro are pro-
badly twenty OF thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona. Long Beach, etc. All these
| are upon the flat-table land which runs from
the top of the bluff inland. There is no
slope, and therefor no view of the ocean, ex-
cept from the avenue along the very edge of
| the bluff. The beach is passable but not al
ways desirable for driving, and the under
tow is often heavy, SO that surf -bathers are
| not safe unless they use the lines connected
with buoys, anchored in deep water. And
Monica, you can see twenty or thirty bathers
attired in scant garments of many colors,
strung along rope, and ps they resemble an
immense animated kite-tale swaying in a
high wind.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. This place is open to the same OBJ
lect1ons as Santa Monicai There is an ex-
| tremely high bluff and table land from the
bluff inland, and from only one street on the
edge of the bluff can an ocean view be OBJ
tanned, Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
| the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
Oceanside reached. At 0ceanside, the direct
| road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
| the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for a
| lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
| dollars for resident lots q mile and more
| from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
Aqua HediOnda. 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and if you annoy
| him with an attempt to talk about selling. he
| consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
bad, and it is a beautiful location, and there
will be q large town there, and prices of lots
| are already away up, as they ought to be.
From Carlsbad south there are lagoOns, sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest
| site in the world for an ocean city, and on
| this site is "Leucadia"-the subject of our
| sketch. Encinitas has good location, but
| somehow it started wrong. The ownership
/ of the land is divided between many men OF
many minds. When one pulls in any par.
ticular direction the other pulls the other